The Best All-Purpose Cleaners for the Home

Better Life’s Natural All-Purpose Cleaner is a safe spray cleaner you can use on multiple surfaces. It cleans appliances, countertops, bathroom and kitchen surfaces, toys, and more, without leaving dangerous chemicals behind.

The clear cleaning solution is free of petroleum, solvents, and VOCs (volatile organic compounds). It contains plant-based cleaning agents including corn, coconut, soap bark, clary sage, and citrus oil. These natural ingredients remove grease, dirt, and stains, leaving behind a fresh, natural scent.

This Better Life cleaner is safe for use around kids and pets. It’s certified by theLeaping Bunnyprogram, indicating that the formula is not tested on animals.

Mr. Clean can handle tough cleaning jobs, get ridding of dirt and odors while fighting household germs and bacteria. This cleaner offers great value in concentrate form. Mr. Clean can be diluted with water and applied with amopon floors, or put into a spray bottle and applied to counters, sinks, toilets, or kitchen appliances paired with asponge.

Mr. Clean kills 99.9 percent of bacteria and has demonstrated effectiveness against Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli, and Proteus mirabilis.

Puracy’s plant-based formula is safe for use around kids and pets. It’s biodegradable, vegan, hypoallergenic, nontoxic and never tested on animals. It works on all household surfaces to remove messes without streaking or leaving a residue.

Use Puracy on any solid surface in your home, including kitchen countertops, appliances, showers, toilets, floors, toys, smartphones, and tablets. It’s a cleaning powerhouse with a fresh scent of green tea and lime, containing no harsh fumes or chemicals. It cleans glass without streaking, too. The formula is made from plants and water, so it’s safe for greywater and septic systems.

CLR Pro is strong enough to cut through grease and lift out oil, tar, and other soils from indoor and outdoor surfaces around your home. This cleaner was formulated for industrial use but is safe to use in your home. CLR Pro is nontoxic, biodegradable, and contains no acids, abrasives, or petroleum solvents.

You can use this cleaner outdoors without harming grass or shrubbery. CLR Pro comes in a ready-to-use, full-strength spray. Apply to floors, tile, pool decks, machinery, and equipment. You can even use CLR Pro to remove oil deposits and gunk from car and lawn mower engines or other machinery.

Opti-Cide Max wipes kill germs, fungus, and bacteria—even some multidrug-resistant organisms. You can quickly clean up the surfaces in your home with these powerful wipes soaked with a broad-spectrum disinfectant. It works fast; lab tests showed Opti-Cide Max killed most organisms in 30 seconds to one minute.

You can use these wipes on nonporous surfaces like sinks, countertops, tubs and showers, tile, electronics, and more. Opti-Cide Max has the scrubbing power of high-alcohol formulas, even though it contains only 20 percent alcohol. This means the wipes won’t cloud or streak.

Clorox Healthcare Bleach Germicidal Cleaner makes quick work of cleaning and disinfecting the surfaces in your home. Importantly, it meets the 1:10 bleach dilution specifications set forth by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines for disinfecting the surfaces in healthcare facilities. It contains an anti-corrosion agent for broad surface application. Use this spray on glass, porcelain, stainless steel, plastic, glazed ceramic, laminated surfaces, and vinyl.

Mrs. Meyer’s sprayable cleaner blasts household dirt and leaves your home smelling fresh with lemon verbena. Use this cleaner to remove dirt and grime from a variety of nonporous surfaces. Mrs. Meyer’s is made from plant-based ingredients like essential oils and birch bark extract. It does not contain parabens, artificial color, glycol solvents, or formaldehyde. This natural cleaner leaves behind no chemicals or residue and is not tested on animals.

Biokleen Natural All Purpose Cleaner has no artificial ingredients, fragrance, colors, or preservatives. Its eco-friendly cleaning power comes from plant-based surfactants and citrus and grapefruit seed extracts, so there are no harsh chemicals or fumes.

This all-purpose cleaner is gentle enough to use safely on most nonporous surfaces, but it gets rid of grease, goo, and grime quickly. Biokleen is a concentrate, and one 64-ounce bottle makes up to 64 gallons of cleaner so there’s less packaging, making it more earth-friendly.